positive - Meaning in Sanskrit

positive - Meaning in Sanskrit

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Definitions and Meaning of positive in English

positive adjective

1. involving advantage or good

   Example

   • "a plus (or positive) factor"
2. persuaded of; very sure

   Examples

   • "I am positive he is lying"
   • "was confident he would win"
   • "were convinced that it would be to their advantage to join"
3. marked by excessive confidence

   Examples

   • "an arrogant and cocksure materialist"
   • "so overconfident and impudent as to speak to the queen"
   • "the less he knows the more positive he gets"
4. having a positive charge

   Example

   • "protons are positive"
5. impossible to deny or disprove

   Examples

   • "an irrefutable argument"
   • "incontrovertible proof of the defendant's innocence"
   • "proof positive"
6. formally laid down or imposed

   Example

   • "positive laws"
7. characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc.

   Examples

   • "a positive attitude"
   • "a positive benefit"
   • "a positive demand"
   • "the reviews were all positive"
8. greater than zero

   Example

   • "positive numbers"
9. reckoned, situated or tending in the direction which naturally or arbitrarily is taken to indicate increase or progress or onward motion

   Example

   • "positive increase in graduating students"
10. indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen

    Example

    • "a positive pregnancy test"
11. of or relating to positivism

    Examples

    • "positive philosophy"
    • "positivist doctrine"
    • "positivist thinkers"

positive noun

1. a film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject
2. the primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution

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